Accessibility and Jumping Puzzles. Why Are We Still Doing This?

[Kaurhz]

I hate to say this but...

They treat color blindness, and people with general visual impairments like second class folk. In fact, in some instances it is like they go out of their way to see how much of a miserable experience they can make it, all in the name of trying to create a visual spectacle in a game where you can literally count the polygons of a characters' chin and a boss model.

With this in mind... I seriously wouldn't expect much in any realm of accessibility whatsoever.

[BunnyBrat]

This is not an accessibility issue. Just suck it up. It's not that serious. I find it hard to believe that this is a serious post.

[VeyaAkemi]

It may not be helpful to you in particular, but Kugane Tower can be cheesed with Eternal Bond, because the ring will tp you to the exact location of your partner, if you are married to someone who can handily do the puzzle, you can just tp to them once they are on the top. I have a FC mate who reliably can do the puzzle and every time she starts showing off, I (jokingly) start doing love declarations so she'd marry me... and let me abuse her jumping powers.

[Doomed_Raven]

I didn't even know Kugane had a jump puzzle, but I'm very good at the gold saucer leap of faiths. If you just want to get this completed (for progression - I'm guessing there's some vista log book stuff up on the roofs?) I'd be happy to do it as a healer and revive teleport you up there, if as Alice_Rivers said - you have Blue mage and self destruct (I'm on Chaos data center). From what others are saying this jumping puzzle is difficult.

And don't worry about asking for help. A lot of people nowadays can be pretty thick or insensitive when it comes to disabilities and understanding them, you'll always get one such response - as you did at the top. But you also got a lot of decent replies, hopefully you'll get this puzzle sorted.

[Nero-Voidstails]

I don't think it's question of insensitive I think it's mostly a question of being tired of being everything shove like it would be the end otherwise. But! there is always a way to say thing and the guy did say he would be rude like some are just tired of sugar coating people like you are on the internet you are fated to meet people that will not believe in what you do or just plain asshole like take thing with a grain of salt.

[Blindheart]

Best case I can think of is some sort of accessibility mode that will show the true hit boxes of the character and the platforms. So many of those jumps you are either starting on or landing in midair… or both. And it seems to vary how much you can overshoot the platforms without just learning from trial and error.

[SophiaDL]

god forbid something fun is in the game, lets just make it easy for the sake of an extreme minority of players, let's just not have any challenge just in case someone has a sensitivity or disability that might make it hard for them to do it, while we're at it, lets just make the bosses static and not allow them any movement even during spell and have a cast bar in the middle of the screen, just in case someone is unable to follow on the boss moving on the screen.

you cant give full accessibility in an MMORPG, except if you want static items everywhere and 0 challenge in anything, nothing would move, not even the sky, because what is someone looks up and gets dizzy, sometimes I look down from high areas and get sick a little and dizzy because I have a fear of height, perhaps they should adapt the game to me too ?

I am obviously sorry that you have a disability, and I am sure its terrible to live with, but the game cannot adapt to every disabled and also sensitive person, if you open the accessibility can of worms, then its never-ending and you end up with a soulless game, even more than it already is.

[cutestfox]

But when it comes to the jumping puzzles like the Tower in Kugane, I hit a wall. Not because of a lack of skill, but because my body physically can't keep up with what these mechanics demand.

I love jump puzzles and spend a lot of time in them in this game.

If you are interested, you are still able to participate in all of this content- though it becomes less of a skill challenge and more of a positioning puzzle.
The puzzles and sightseeing logs aren't out of reach with just a bit of creativity

Here's a macro you can use ingame to do a basic jump:

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/automove on
/wait a frame
/wait a frame
/wait a frame
/wait a frame
/wait a frame
/gaction Jump
/wait a frame
/wait a frame
/wait a frame
/wait a frame
/wait a frame
/wait a frame
/automove off
/micon Tetragrammaton
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You can fine-tune the distance of your jump by adding or removing the "/wait a frame" lines
They are of course, not real commands and don't do anything- but that's exactly their purpose

Macros execute 1 line per frame, so you can use this to do fractional delays and make one or two jump macros that suit you

[BelegErkhten]

Actual skill issue

[FuturePastNow]

I sympathize, as someone who is also very bad at jumping puzzles (though I have been to the top of Kugane Tower and a few other places, with the help of friends). So I don't want to this to sound insensitive, but: you're just going to have to accept that there are going to be things in this and other games that you can't do, and that doesn't mean those things are a problem that needs to be changed.